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Neutral atom arrays have emerged as a powerful platform for quantum computation, simulation, and metrology. Among them, alkaline-earth-like atoms exhibit distinct advantages, including long coherence time and high-fidelity Rydberg gates. However, their scalability has lagged behind that of the alkali atoms. Here, we report 2,400 Ytterbium-174 atoms trapped in an optical tweezer array with enhanced single-atom loading efficiency of 83.5(1)%. Notably, the loading efficiency is largely maintained for array sizes ranging from dozens to thousands, exhibiting excellent scalability. We demonstrate the broad applicability of the enhanced loading method by showing that the enhancement exists robustly across a range of interatomic potentials, suggesting its utility for other atomic species. To establish the capability of the 174Yb arrays toward universal quantum computation, we propose to encode the qubit in the ground-clock state manifold and estimate a 99.9% two-qubit gate fidelity with experimentally feasible parameters.

Pai Peng received B.S. in Physics from Peking University in 2017. He received PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2022 and then joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow, before going back to Peking University as an assistant professor in 2024. His research focuses on quantum computing and quantum many-body physics. He contributed in realizing high-fidelity gates and erasure conversion in neutral atom quantum computers, as well as quantifying Floquet heating rating using NMR experiments. He received Boeing Quantum Creator Prize in 2023.